indispensabile
indispensable
adjective een-dee-spehn-SAH-bee-leh Less Common
Origin: from Latin 'dispensare', to weigh out
Also means
essential
Usage Note
Indispensabile keeps one form for masculine and feminine singular, taking -i in the plural (strumenti indispensabili). It often appears with è in the fixed structure è indispensabile che + subjunctive ('it is essential that').
Examples
"Il tuo aiuto è indispensabile."
Natural Translation
Your help is indispensable.
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